The Russellville Democrat., 1887-11-02
RUssEILvIILE, POPE 90. ARK NOVEMBER , 1857.

AL suits by the Oregon Transconti-
mental railway against the Northern Pa
oific have been withdrawn.
THE Hungarian delegation in the Imper-
ial Reichstag has selected Cardinal Hay
nald A. its president.
THE Czar has appointea committee to
select s..soosssf 60 NJ Katkoff as man
e1er sss 81 the Moscow Gazette
PRINCE ZARToRYsKr's historic castle at
Justooska, near Cracow has been de-
stroyed by fre. The contents Of the pic
ture gallery, which occupied the whole Of
the second story, were lost. The gallery
contained q valuable collesion Of art Gu
rios. "a
FROM September % to the present time
shocks OF earthquakes have been felt al.
most daily on the island of Haytl. In con-
sequence panic has seized the inhabitants
and business has almost been suspended.
A SHARP engagement has taken place on
the frontier Of Servia between Albanian
brigands, who attempted to raid into Servia,
and force Of frontier guards. Ten Ser
vians and twenty Albanians were killed.
Rev. G. H. STURGEON, the great English
preacher, has withdrawn from the Baptist
Union. His objection to the Union was
based on the allegation that heretical de-
nominations and even intidels were admit
ted to membership.
TEE French Budget Committee has re-
jected the appropriation for the Vatican
embassy
Sir WILLIAM VERNON HARcoURT, IN q
speech at Portsmouth, England, recently,
declared that there was only one settle
ment Of the Irish question, and that was
home rule. He criticised Churchill se-
verely.
The wooden mill in Hespler, Ont, owned
by John Harvey and J. r. McQuestion, has
been seized at the instance OF the Bank Of
Montreal under chattel mortgage for
$4,000.
s. INaRAHAM has been reelected secre-
tary OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
gineers
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
voted life pensions to all persons wounded
in the revolution Of 184S.
A SMALL majority OF the leading Scottish
Conservatives favor an extension OF the
suffrage to women. 8
PRINCE FERDINAND opened the Bulgarian
Sobranje in person on the 27th.
WADr HALrA, in Upper Egypt, is re-
ported threatened by $500 Soudanese.
WAR Is imminent in Zululand against an
nexatlon to Natal, and Sir Arthur Have
lock, Governor Of Natal, with 1900 troops
GRATED from the colony, has started for
the territory formerly possessed by Cete-
wayo, where the latter's son, Dinizulu,
heads the rising.
BY the sinking of a fishing boat near
Halifax, N. S., the other day three men
were lost.
SIR WMFRED BLUNT, who was arrested
for speaking at National League meeting
in Ireland, was found guilty of violating
the Irish Grimes act and sentenced to two
months Imprisonment.
JAMES A. BAILEY has purchased the en-
tire interest OF James L. Hutchinson, w.
W. Cole and J. E. Cooper in the Barnum
and London circus, menagerie, hippo
drome, etc. The firm will now be Barnum
q Bailey.
BUSINESS failures during the seven days
ended October 27 numbered for the United
States 1893; Canada, %; total of 216, as
compared with POI the previous week and
215 the corresponding week of last year.
BLANKET-TossING as punishment in the
French army has been prohibited, conse-
quent upon the death Of recruit who was
thus being treated for being unable to con-
troll his horse.
A GENERAL who assisted Ayoub Khan In
his flight from Persia has been captured in
Afghanistan and hanged.
SEVEN young widows OF Bingula and
Pesth, in Austria Hungary, have been ar
rested for poisoning their husbands. Other
arrests are about to be made.
A FERRYMAN on the Lower Danube has
been arrested, charged with the murder of
numbers OF persons whom he took to .
lonely island and killed and robbed.
The schooner w. b. Taylor, grain laden
from Chicago to Kingston, Ont, is now
known to have been lost with all on board.
Captain James Dix, the commander, was a
well known navigator and a resident OF
Kingston. George Crawford and Robert
Crosby, members Of the crew, were also
Kingston men.
The Western Union stockholders have
unanimously approved the purchase of the
Baltimore & OHIO lines
THE Pope is disappointed at Mgr. Persico's
failure to obtain any thing but vague dec
larations in Ireland.
The Austrian Unterhaus has passed the
bill prolonging the commercial treaty with
Italy until june next.
PRESIDENT GREvY, at q Cabinet Council
on the 2Sth, intimated that he would resign
IL an inquiry were instituted into M. VIII
sons alleged connections with the docora-
tions scandal